Thread: RUSH UNCORKS ON MAJOR REPUBLICAN 'BETRAYAL' I never thought I would live to see this

Rush uncorks on 'betrayal' of lifetime ...

Rush Limbaugh is putting away his pom poms and unloading big-time after this mind-boggling betrayal at the hands of these back-stabbing losers.

"I never thought I would live to see this ..."

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RUSH UNCORKS ON MAJOR REPUBLICAN 'BETRAYAL'

'I never thought I would live to see this kind of self-sabotage'

Published: 1 hour ago JOE KOVACS
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Radio host Rush Limbaugh

PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Republican Party “betrayed” its own candidate, Ken Cuccinelli, in the race for Virginia governor, says radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, claiming party leaders want to make New Jersey’s Chris Christie the GOP frontrunner for president in 2016.
“It’s a shame what happened to Ken Cuccinelli,” the top conservative voice said in his post-election analysis Wednesday. “He was betrayed by his own party. … Here was their chance to have a Republican governor in the state of Virginia, and they didn’t care.”
Cuccinelli was defeated Tuesday by Democrat Terry McAuliffe with a thin margin of just over two percentage points, 47.74 percent to 45.29 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian candidate, collected 6.52 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, Christie cruised to re-election as New Jersey’s governor, with a landslide victory over Barbara Buono.
Limbaugh lashed into the GOP establishment’s treatment of tea-party favorite Cuccinelli, saying, “They didn’t want him to win, this is the dirty little secret. I don’t even think it’s a secret now. Such is the animus toward the tea party in the Republican Party establishment that they are perfectly comfortable with a Christie win and a Cuccinelli loss, because to them, that’s a tea-party loss. So now the Republican establishment can run around and claim the tea party is an albatross around their neck. The tea party is the death knell, they’ll say.”

Video of Ken Cuccinelli’s concession speech:

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He noted the Republican Party spent three times as much money four years ago as they did on this year’s race, and that the Chamber of Commerce didn’t contribute anything for Cuccinelli this time.
“It could have been won. That’s the really frustrating thing,” Limbaugh said. “Now they’re just going ape [in the Republican establishment]. They’re so happy, they can’t see straight” because “Chris Christie is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.”
He also said public opposition to Obamacare had a “huge impact” in putting Cuccinelli in contention.
“Do not fall for this notion that Obamacare didn’t play a role,” Limbaugh explained. “This election could have been won, folks, with just average effort from the Republican base.”
“The Republican Party would not mind at all if the takeaway in Virginia was it was a Terry McAuliffe landslide against the tea party. I’m not exaggerating,” he added.
He noted some people might wonder if the Republican brand was tarnished for their role in the recent government shutdown, and explained, “Republicans in exit polls were not blamed for the government shutdown. But the Republican establishment wants people to think that tea party was responsible for it. I never thought I would live to see this kind of self-sabotage.”

Video of Terry McAuliffe’s victory speech:

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Meanwhile in New Jersey, Limbaugh said the Democrats “didn’t even mount a real opponent.”
“The Democrats never once attacked Chris Christie in that state,” he said.
“There was no real Democrat effort to unseat Christie. Now what does that tell you? And now you’ve got so many people in the media celebrating the Christie win as the road to the future for the Republican Party. What does that tell you? I’m tired of the media picking our [presidential] candidate for us, and they’re trying to do it here. … The Democrats didn’t want to defeat Christie. What does that tell you?”
He noted that despite Christie’s easy win Tuesday night, exit polls in New Jersey had Hillary Clinton beating him by 4 to 6 points in a potential presidential matchup in 2016.
Limbaugh also criticized Christie, who reportedly refused to campaign for Cuccinelli in Virginia.
“So Christie refuses to help another Republican, joins in this fray that the Republican wackos caused the shutdown, and [suggests], ‘There isn’t going to be any of that childish behavior if I get there. We’re never gonna shut down the government. We’re gonna work with the Democrats.”
Limbaugh did see a ray of hope for those on the political right, though, noting “more people voted against McAuliffe than voted for him.”

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The GOP hierarchy is done IMO, they simply are interested in there progressive ideology with no regard to the conservative base.

http://www.alipac.us/f19/mark-levin-...ccinel-291568/

RETURN TO REASON

Beware of liberals in libertarian drag

Exclusive: Ilana Mercer sees little difference between leftists, Virginia guv candidate

Published: 1 day ago
Ilana Mercer Ilana Mercer is a paleolibertarian writer, based in the U.S. She pens WND's longest-standing, exclusive paleolibertarian column, "Return to Reason." She is a contributor to Economic Policy Journal, the pre-eminent libertarian website, and is a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, an award-winning, independent, nonprofit, free-market economic policy think-tank. Mercer's latest book is "Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa." Her website is IlanaMercer.com.. She blogs at www.barelyablog.com.

As analysts of the exit polls in the Virginia gubernatorial race have it, Robert Sarvis, the libertarian lite, third-party candidate is not to blame for “siphoning off” votes from conservative Ken Cuccinelli and spoiling an election in what was once a reliably red state.
“In a straight two-way matchup,” contended one such analyst at FoxNews.com, “voters preferred McAuliffe to Cuccinelli by 2 points. That’s almost identical to the [race's] final outcome.”

This is unconvincing. Is it not possible that without Sarvis, those energized “independents and moderates,” whose support Sarvis garnered might have turned out for Cuccinelli? There are those who are convinced that Sarvis cut into Cuccinelli’s support. The tea party’s Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, for example.
Indeed, a jubilant CNN reporter – the nitwork could not conceal its collective glee over the victory, in Virginia, of Democratic fundraiser Terry McAuliffe – conceded that “self-described independents broke for Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli.” Clearly, there was overlap between the Cuccinelli and Sarvis constituencies.
We all recall another Libertarian Party clown’s perennial struggle to get on the ballot as the party’s presidential nominee. Unlike wacky Gary Johnson, whose “ballot access” was impeded by “Republican operatives,” somebody greased the skids for Sarvis, helping place him on the Virginia ballot.
Good old-fashioned (and near-obsolete) shoe-leather journalism, conducted by The Blaze, revealed that Sarvis had help from “a major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler.” A software billionaire named Joe Liemandt, who acted as one of Barack Obama’s super fundraisers in 2012, galvanized on behalf of Sarvis.
Order lIana Mercer’s brilliant polemical work, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Incriminating as this may appear, evidence of a dark, Democratic scheme it is not. In fairness to Sarvis’ sponsor – who hobnobs with Obama acolytes like Warren Buffet, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein – he was in the habit of splitting “political giving between libertarian third-party efforts and liberal Democrats.”
That a political contributor would have no compunction about supporting both the Democratic National Committee and the Libertarian Action Super PAC is not surprising. Politicking in America precludes staking out principled positions.
Besides, the gulf between establishment libertarians and left-liberals is not that wide. The Libertarian Party is a party of “isms,” not individualism. When it comes to playing manipulative politics with hot-button social issues – matters of “racism,” “sexism” (blah, blah) – there’s no daylight between left-libertarians and leftists.
True to type, Sarvis’ same-sex marriage sanctimony is not only pious, but specious. By Wikipedia’s telling, he “supports same-sex marriage and says it is a personal issue for him because his own marriage, which is biracial, was illegal in Virginia 50 years ago.” (By the same token, why not support affirmative action, on the ground that it, too, wasn’t the law “in Virginia 50 years ago”?)
True libertarians toil to keep the state out of marriage altogether. In furtherance of liberty, Uncle Sam’s purview must be curtailed, not expanded. On this score, let our gay friends and family members lead the way. Let them solemnize their commitment in contract and through church, synagogue and mosque (that will be the day!). Once interesting and iconoclastic, gays have become colossal bores who crave nothing more than the state’s seal of approval. Go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police’s violations of privacy and private property were the object of gay anger and activism.
Invariably deployed to encroach on private property and police subversives, the political construct that is “discrimination” (“sexism, racism, blah, blah”) ought to be opposed by the party of individualism. So long as the individual keeps his paws to himself, let him think, speak, associate and dissociate at will.
Unsurprisingly, the Libertarian Party candidate is for open borders, framing the matter with yet more illogical, liberal argumentation. (Here: I know immigrants, therefore immigration should proceed unfettered.)
The immigration vexation has pitted governors like Arizona’s and attorneys general such as Cuccinelli against the feds in a heroic fight for the right of state representatives to protect their constituents from trespass. On immigration, left-libertarians come down foursquare on the side of the federales. (Rest assured that the latest, statist amnesty bill is Sarvis’ dream come true.)
“Insane” is how Mr. libertarian himself, Ron Paul, characterized a vote for a candidate (Robert Sarvis) who was willing to consider a mileage tax on Virginians, complete with government-accessible, GPS surveillance in vehicles.
“Insane” is also an apt description of running a gubernatorial candidate against one of the most libertarian attorneys general a state has had. Ken Cuccinelli’s attempts to nullify federal health insurance mandates in Virginia go back to 2010, when he launched a legal challenge to “shield Virginians from paying any penalties for not purchasing federally approved health care.”
Cuccinelli, attests Timothy Carney of The Examiner, “wants to cut the state income tax rate by 15 percent for individuals and 33 percent for corporations,” “has an A rating from the National Rifle Association – earned while representing Fairfax County in the state Senate,” contested “smoking bans as a senator,” is known to “choose government restraint over ‘law and order’”; has opposed expanding the death penalty, has criticized the drug war and crusaded to exonerate the wrongly convicted.
Also on target was Cuccinelli’s campaign against Northern Virginia’s consummate carpetbaggers and their land-development schemes. I’d hazard that because he vowed to stop taxpayer subsidies to these crony capitalists, Attorney General Cuccinelli lost the GOP’s financial backing and was, consequently, outspent by his rival.
Lamentably, beltway libertarian Ed Crane and his Purple PAC backed the insignificant Sarvis partly because this lot is every bit as committed to superfluous social cause célèbres as the “theo-conservatives” they abhor.
Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom.
Every bit as bad as liberals, “libertarian” political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.


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ELECTION 2013

Cuccinelli's defeat: Blame the Republican Party

Star Parker: GOP failures are due to 'lack of clarity, conviction and courage'

Published: 28 mins ago
Star Parker

Politics is in the eye of the beholder.

Post-mortems now gushing forth about why Ken Cuccinelli, conservative Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, lost to Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a business-as-usual political retread from the Clinton crowd, tell us more about who produces this punditry than what reality actually might be.

We’re hearing that the tea party killed Cuccinelli (according to the Wall Street Journal editorial page, they “stabbed him in the back”) with the government shutdown and that, once again, a socially conservative Republican candidate has shown he can’t win the votes of women.
What I see is very different. What I see is a Republican Party that still has not learned the necessary lessons to reverse setbacks of recent years.
It was not the tea party that stabbed Ken Cuccinelli in the back but the establishment of his own party. Once a real conservative candidate gets nominated, the party loses interest. And because they lose interest, they hold back funds, thus assuring their own prediction that this candidate can’t win.
Cuccinelli lagged in total funding by $14 million. In the early months of the campaign, because of lack of funding, he was brutally attacked in ads that went unanswered.
Regarding the shutdown – supposedly of disproportionate impact because so many Northern Virginians work for the federal government – Cuccinelli was well behind in the polls for months before the shutdown even occurred. Again, largely because of unanswered attack ads.
The Republican establishment can’t seem to grasp that they would have helped their cause by embracing the defund-Obamacare efforts of tea partiers Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
Every day Americans see more clearly what a disaster Obamacare – the Affordable Care Act – is. If Republican leadership would have unified clearly around the efforts of Cruz and Lee, and the American people got a clear picture of Republican unity and commitment to slay the Obamacare monster, it would have helped the party and Cuccinelli.
It is also clear that Republicans still haven’t gotten the message about race and the changing demographics of the country.
When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2012, while winning just 38 percent of the white vote, Republicans supposedly learned something.
Those lessons appear to have been lost in Virginia.
Virginia has a large black population, 50 percent higher than the national average. Terry McAuliffe got 90 percent of the black vote, as did Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia in 2009.
The difference is that in this election, blacks constituted 20 percent of the overall vote, up four points from 16 percent in 2009. So the impact of the black vote grew in 2013.
That increase of 4 points of the black vote as a percentage of the total vote could have made the difference alone, given that Cuccinelli lost by 2.5 points.
The Republican candidate for lieutenant governor was a no-nonsense black pastor, graduate of Harvard Law School, E.W. Jackson.
This would have been a classic opportunity for the Republican Party to aggressively visit black churches, talk about the conservative religious values these black Americans care so dearly about, and explain the deep damage welfare-state policies and secular humanism embraced by Democrats has done in black communities. Where were they?
Then there is the claim that conservative candidates can’t attract women.
Not true. It’s not about gender but about marriage.
Cuccinelli captured the votes of both married men (50 percent) and married women (51 percent). It was the unmarried vote that McAuliffe captured (51 percent single men, 67 percent single women).
Republicans have not failed in recent years as result of being too bold or too conservative.
They have failed due to lack of clarity, conviction and courage.
The defeat of Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia is not an encouraging sign that Republicans have learned their lessons.


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